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Show Chapter 5 Recommendations Implementation: Study the impacts to the riparian zones in Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons from hiking, biking, camping, fishing and other recreational activities. Work with the appropriate management agencies to reduce these impacts by addressing the uses in the order of their significance. Explanation: Big and Little Cottonwood Creeks riparian zones are heavily used. Better managing the activities within these corridors will lead to improved water quality. • Recommendation: The laws governing watershed protection will be updated. Implementation: Coordinate with the Salt Lake County Sheriff to review the current watershed regulations to make suggestions regarding which regulations will be updated, by June 1, 2000. • Recommendation: Inform the judiciaries about the importance of upholding stiff penalties for watershed violations. Implementation: Distribute factual information by January 1, 2001 to all judiciaries who preside over watershed violation cases. L. FIRE MANAGEMENT PLAN • Recommendation: Salt Lake City will work with its partners in watershed management to develop a comprehensive wildfire management plan. Implementation: Developing wildfire management plan by January 1, 2001. Explanation: Salt Lake City and other affected agencies need to develop a comprehensive wildfire management plan to address future wildfires in the watershed. The present total attack and suppression policy on wildland fires must be re- addressed due to recent advances in forest ecology research and the high fuel loadings within the watershed. New strategies, including prescribed burns or allowing certain fires to burn will be explored. Page 90 |